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The Clifton clarion., 1887-01-26
Tt Raised Good Men.

San Francisco Alta: The ques- tion of long hours of labor is one that will not down. It is not to the advantage of the community to deprive large masses of men of needful rest and occasional leisure. But there are generations of men reared in this country under longer hours of labor than anywhere ex- acted now by mine, mail or rail road owners. Nutmany years ago the majorityfpl ssiea this country were on U. rural occupations. We kAaFsk1Sl it went with them, for wesw6E1s there" Their average pay was $15 per month. Their hour to rise and begin the work of the day averaged, the year round, 4:30 q. m, and their hour to knock off, when the last "chore" was done, 9 o'clock p. m., with a liability to q call in the night if a horse got ''cast" in his stall, or a moon calf's mother needed looking after, or doctor had to be ridden for to at tend some sick member of the fam fly. The days work, from boots to socks, was good full seventeen hours for 50 cents. We seem to remember that it raised pretty good men. By three and third months work they earned enough money to enter forty acres of land, and were soon hiring other young fellows for the same wages. In those days young Americans were not on the trail of a ''soft thing" They were not blubering on the roadside for sympathy. They had no walking delegates" to destroy the business of employers who had been guilty of the incredible wick edness of giving them work and wages. They were not in the ati tude of permanent protest against their lot in life. Instead of whin- ing about it, they used it's few ad- vantages to honorably work their way out of it, and they were better sons, better husbands, and better fathers for the manliness engen- dered by the experience.
The Clifton clarion., 1887-01-26
Mixed Transactions.

First colored evangelist ito CO., worker)- How yer gittin' long wid yer meetin' down atde bayou?" Second colored evangelist-"Sor- ter slow, but we'll git dar arter while. How is it wid yerse'f?"
 "Sorter rushin.' Raked in ten sinners las night an got CT fne prospeck fer CT dozen ter night" ".s. De Lawd mus be wid yer" Z Peer like it, sho. Knows o1 Sandy Smif, I reckons?"
 "Whut, de gambler an bad sin her man?"
 "Yas."
 'Co'se l knows him. Won all mer money last summer"
 "Wall, Tse kotch hlm."
 Go 'wayr'
 "Kotch him, tells yer"
 How yer do 1t!
 "Stacked de kayards on him"
 Wall, how did dat git him 'lig- ion?"
 "W'y, it didn't, O cou'se."
 "Thougt.t yer'd kotch him 'mung de sinners"
 70, no; I ment to tell yer dat I'd got him in CT nudder way. Why, sah, yer conversation wuz so fine dat l dun got two transactions mixed. o, yas; ! was mighty suc- cessful wid de DO sinners. They shouted monstrous."-Arkansaw Traveller,
The Clifton clarion., 1887-01-26
THE OVERLAND MONTHLY
FOR E83S.
TIE REPRESENTATIVE MAGAZINE OF
 THE PACIFIC COAST.

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 "One might almost as well com pliment the Century by compari- son with the OVERLAND as vice versa" ."-Boston Traveller. For comprehensiveness of scope, soundness of thought and high literary quality, the OVERLAND is not surpassed by the best of the Eastern monthlies. w orcester Spy. Mass.
 "The great and representative magazine of the far West. This periodical is edited with catholic taste, and it has an admirable corps of contributors. Its pages are on every subject, and they have full as much liteary value as those of any magazine published east of the Rockies" s."-Albany Ar gus, N. Y.
 "Sustains the high literary rep utation won long ago by thls com panionable and ever welcome mag azlne. Its articles are short, pithy and thoroughly attractive. .'-In- terior, Chicago.
 "The OVERLAND IS devoted to the intellectual and moral develop ment of the Pacific Slope. and re- fleets the influence of its best ele- mants. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
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 Its high literary standard, the dignified and moderate temper it has always maintained, its policy of impartial hearing of both sides, and its absolute independence of any private or party interests, make it a peculiarly influential or gan."-The Week, Toronto, Can ada.
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 ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE YEAR.
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 Sketches of character, travel and exploration.
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 Literature, public life, educa ton, history.
 The rest thought of the best writers, devoted to living topics. Illustrated special articles aid ing the material growth of the country.
 THE OVERLAND MONTHLY,
 1887.
 Single subscriptions S400 per year, post paid. Single number 8 cents. Sample copy 25 cents. Club terms five copies to one ad- dress, S2500. Local agents want ed, aud liberal terms offered. Ad- dress,
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The Clifton clarion., 1887-01-26

The 125 steamships plying be- tween the United States and Europe cost S100,000,000, employ 1S,750 men, spend $l,000,000 a month for coal, carry 500,000 pas sengers year, and earn S22,000,- GOO for passage money exclusive of what is paid for freight
The Clifton clarion., 1887-01-26
Legislative Items.
COUNCIL

l SemDly:
 COUNCIL.
 A. Cornwall, President; Charles Drlscoll, Secretary;J J. Stein, En- crossing Clerk; Wash French, Ser gent-at-Arms; Crook Marion, mes senger; Thos. Butler, watchman.
 HOUSE.
 s. Nj. Webb, Speaker; Richard Rule, Chief Clerk; J. s. Taylor, Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk Charles Kathrens, Sergant-at- Arms; James 5. Brown, messenger; Thomas Pearson, watchman.
 STANDING COMMITTEES, COUNCIL.
 Militia and Indian Affairs-Wat- kins, Burdick, Anderson. Mines and Mining-Drake, Stevens, Blinn. Corporation-Blinn, Ly- ons, Foster, Drake, Breed. Ways and Reconsideration, Burdick, Goodrich. Printing-Foster, Ste vens, Lyons. Memorials and Pe- titions-Burdick, Foster, Breed. Enrolled and Engrossed Bills Stevens, Goodrich, Robertson. Education-Lyons, Blinn, Drake Judiciary-Andersop, Watkins, Blinn, Foster, Drake. Counties aud County Boundaries-Blinn, Stevens, Lyons, Anderson, Foster. Claims-Robertson, Breed, Good rich. Federal Relations Watkins, Foster, Anderson. Agriculture Goodrich, Robertson, Breed. Roads and Ferries-Breed, Bur dict, Watkins. Territorial Affairs Stevens, Blinn, Lyons.
 HOUSE.
 Rules-NIr Speaker, Gray, Oliver. Elections Anderson, Col lins, "A ores, Heyne, Oliver. Ways and Means-Adamson, Bracewell, White, Ming, Bean. Appropria tion-Tripple, Gray, Ashurst, Smith, Heyne. Education-Oliver, Heyne, Scott, (of Apache Judici- ary-Peel, Andrews, Tripple, Brace well, Bean. Claims-ieyne, Fish CT, Smith. Militia and Indian Af- fairs-Ming, Heyne, Mckay. Roads and Ferries-Scott, (of PIma) Collins, Felton. Enrolled and Engrossed Bills-Fisher, White, Wores. Printing-Brace- well, Ming, Ashurst, Andrews, Do ran Corporations-Gray,Le Leather wood, Andrews, Baker, Scott, (Ap- ache). Memorials and Petitions Ashurst, Collins, Scott (Apache). Mines and Mining-Collins, Me Kay, Doran, Atkinson, Scott, (Pima.) Counties and County Boundaries-Felton, Tripple, Do ran, Smith, Ming. Federal Rela- tions-Peel, Oliver, Mckay. -Ag- riculture-Adamson, Felton, Scott (of Pima.) Public Buildings and Grounds-Leatherwood, Ashurst; Baker Territorial Library-Peel, Fisher, Wores. Irrigation-Ming, Triple, White, Felton, Gray. Public Expenditures and Accounts White, Scott (of Pima,) Bean. ! Territorial Affairs-Leatherwood, Bracewell, Baker.
 The 125 steamships plying be- | tI4 l
The Clifton clarion., 1887-01-26
Arizona q Kew Is xieo R. K. Time

Trains run daily, Suae ys eHcept'I.
 W .H. JONES, Gent. superintendent.
The Clifton clarion., 1887-01-26
OFFICIAL DIT iECT0RY.
Territo rsai.

Territo rsai.
 t;overnor-C Meyer lick. Frsscott- Se-re.ary-Jas. 4. Bay 1rd Prescott. Treasurer-Thomas J. B9tier, Prescott z, Sn,printendent Of P ,blic inHtruction-C- snditor-E. P. Clark, Prescott.
 Commissioner of I nmiSratien-Pa'rick Hamilton, Phoenix. Supreme Court-Jol n C. Shields, Chici Justice. Prescott; W W: Porter Asso- ciate Justice. Pheni1 Wm- H. BarhsS' U. $. District Attor ley-Owen T. Rouse Tucson. r
 Q. $. Marshal-W.E Meade, Tucson. Suryeyor General, .Hise. Cucso1- U. S. Internal Rove lue Colector-W. Il. Bristol. Tucson. .. Delegate to Congres s-C. C. Bean. Prescott. Judge of First JuC icial District-Wm- H. Barnes w ", Judge of Third Jr dicial District-John C. Shields, Prescott
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02
RECKLESS BETTING.
An Evil Which Frequently Mars the En-
gagement of Amateur Races.

An EVIL Which Frequently Mars the En-
gagement of Amateur Races.
But can betting on the university
races be stoppedP That is not to be
expected; but it can be enormously
diminished, and that by no one else
than by the crews themselves. If they
will dispense with all DISCUSSES and
subterfuges, and let themselves be
known for just what they are, neither
more nor less, then betting will lose
nine-tenths of its impetus. Nor will
the pleasurable elements of legitimate
uncertainty as to the result ever be alb
sent; for, however apparent it may seem
that one of the crews is superior to the
other, there are dozen possibilities
that this anticipation may be defeated
when the race actually comes to be
rowed. One man may overtrain; an
other may catch crab; the stroke may
turn out more effective than it looked;
or the crew that had never done itself
justice in practice may awaken under
the spur of actual competition, and
surprise its friends and strike aghast its
enemies. No race is ever won until it
has been rowed. And even if the
prophets prove correct, defeat will be
no worse, nor victory any less sweet, il
it has been expected beforehand. 1t is
rare privilege, too-the opportunity
to do ones utmost for no other reward
than the parsley crown. 1t is priv.
lege which comes seldom in after life,
as these young gentlemen will discover
in due time,-JuIian HaWthOrR, 81
Century.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02
TENNESSEE
AT REST.

Down in vale, where the blossoming clover
Fills the air with perfume, and the rose bend
ing over
The stream, to gaze at itself through the
rushes,
is kissed by the sun and the wind till 1t bushes,
We laid her TO rest,
The sod on her breast
There thegfight gold of the buttercup's bios
soml
Burns at ber feet and shines on her bosom,
Ana the summer-wind sings her a song as 1t
passes
lullaby low 'mong the reeds and the grasses
That grow round her bed,
AT her feet and her head.
She hears not the sound Of our bitterest crying,
SO low meath the clover her bright head is
lying
And never again will the life passions riot
In the heart that has grown so chillngly quiet
To throb ne'eragain
With passionate pain.
Forever at rest; secure from all sorrow,
With never care or q thought for the morrow
The head that ever was tossing and turning
WIN the fever OF life, that was scorchng and
burning,
In the sorrowful past
Is quiet at last.
All like bell that is solemnly tollng
Times ponderOus wheels are endlessly rolling,
And the flowers of life, all wlthered and dying
In heaps in his merciless pathway are lying;
But the dead do not feel
His chariot wheel.
Under coverlet broidered and braided
With flowers that bloom ere spring-time has
faded;
When the nightingales flute and the sun loves
to daily,
peep in the shade Of that blossoming valley,
Let her dreamlessly sleep,
Forgetting to weep
Belle Bremen, IN Current.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02
THE WEARING OF STAYS.
Perniclous Habit Which Transform
Graceful Girls Into Dumpy Figures.


A Perniclous Habit which Transform
Graceful Girls Into Dumpy Figures.
Women, especially those of the up
per classes, who are not obliged to keep
themselves in condition by work, lose,
after middle age, sometimes earlier, q
considerable amount of their height.
not by STOPPING, as men do, but by
actual collapse, sinking down-mainly
to be attributed to the perishing of the
muscles that support the frame in con-
sequence of habitual and constant
pressure of stays and dependence upon
the artificial support by them afforded.
Every girl who wears stays that press
upon these muscles and restrict the
free development of the fibers that
form them, relieving them from their
natural duties of supporting the spine.
indeed, incapacitating them from so
doing, may feel sure she is preparing
herself to be dumpy woman. A
great pity! Failure of health among
women when the vigor of youth passes
away is but too patent and but too
commonly caused by this practice.
Let the man who admires the piece
of pipe that does duty for the
human body, picture to himself
the wasted form and scanned skin.
Most women, from long custom Of
wearing these stays, are really un-
aware how much they are hampered
and restricted. A girl of twenty, in
tended by nature to be one of her
finest specimens, gravely assures one
that her stays are not tight, being ex-
actly the same size as those she was
first put into, not perceiving her con-
demnation in the fact that she has
grown five inches in height and two in
shoulder breadth. Her stays are not
too tight, because the constant pressure
has prevented the natural development
of the heart and lung space. The
dainty waists of the poets is precisely
that flexible slimness that is destroyed
by stays. The form resulting from
them is not slim, but piece of pipe
and as infexible. But, while en-
deavoring to make clear the outrage
upon practical good sense and sense of
beauty, it is necessary to understand
and admit the whole state of the case.
The reason, if not q necessity, for
some sort of corset, may be found
when the form is very redundant; this
however, can not be with the
very young and slight, but all that
necessity could demand and that prac-
teal good sense and fitness would con-
cede, could be found in strong elastic
kind of jersey, sufficiently strong, and
even stiff, under the bust to support it,
and sufficiently elastic at the sides
and back to injure no organs and inn
pede no functions. Even in the case
of the young and slight an elastic band
under the false ribs would not be in
furious, but perhaps the contrary,
serving as constant hint to keep the
chest well forward and the shoulders
back, but every stiff, unyielding ma
chine, crushing the ribs and destroy
ing the fiber of muscle, will be fatal to
health. to freedom of movement, and
to beauty; it is scarcely too much to say
that the wearing of such amounts to
stupidity in those who do not know
the consequences (or over and over
again warning has been given) and to
wickedness in those who do.-CIeUe-
land Leader.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02
Silk from New England.

Though the moth family of Bomby-
cide includes upwards of forty fiber
spinners, most of the worlds silk is
still obtained from single species, the
product of the common silkworm Bonn
byr nlOr) being superior both in quail
ity and in quantity to that of any other
yet tried. The fiber of Santa cicropiG,
species that feeds on the apples and
kindred plants throug hout the United
States and Canada, has lately attracted
attention, and seems to be finer, softer
and more abundant than that of any
other American silk-worm. Prof. Carl
Braun, a German entomologist now To-
Gated at Bangor, Me-, has received
from Lyons manufacturer an order
for five hundred cocoons of this moth,
and hopes to supply them this season.
This Investigator is confident that the
experiments to be made with these
cocoons will be successful, and predicts
that Maine will produce its own silk q
quarter of century hence. -ArEGnSGw
TTnpeleT.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02
Mathematical Stables.

As rule, in building stables. too lit
Tie attention is given to securing light
and ventilation, two most important aids
in keeping stock healthy. 1t is strange
that when these can be had so easily,
barns are so often very defective and
unhealthy for lack of them. Animals
should have light, comfortable quar-
tiers, not only because it is more pleas
ant and easier to care for them in such
barns, but because they give better re-
turns for the food consumed in such
healthy quarters. Plenty of sunlight
for farm stock is as desirable and benz
fetal as it is for the family in the house
of the owner. In planning for new
buildings this point should not be over
looked-NationGl Lice Stock Journal.
The story of the vampire is not all
a myth. In South America there ara
bats which annoy cattle and horses By
sucking their blood
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02
A QUEER FOURTH.
The Boys Good Joke, and What
Game Of It.

"1ts going to be the meanest kind
of Fourth of July. No bloom on the
common, and no fireworks. They're
not even going to ring the church-bell
because that little old sexton, Sandy
Movie is too lazy, l supposed"
Truman Bluford, generally known
among his comrades as True Blue, was
eXcitedly announcing this dismal news
to Rob Trip and Tenney Cole, in his
fathers store.
There's no patriotism IN Cherry
field. They've all forgotten how our
fathers fought and bled,' said Rob
Trip, who liked to read nothing but
stories of battle, and meant to fight
something when he grew up, if it were
only Indians.
ut will be as still as Sunday, l
know. What is the Fourth of July with
out racket" said Tenney Cole, de-
jectedly.
81 tell you, boys, something ought to
be done!" said True.
That was what the boys liked about
True. He was always ready to do
something. Older people were inclined
to think he was little too ready to do
mischief, but the boys were generally
ready to follow where True led the
way.
1--WE might ring the church bell"
said True
THAT wasn't much to do Rob thought;
1T sounded rather tame. Still it would
be fun to wake the stupid Cherryfeld
people out of the maps which they had
no business to be having on Fourth of
July morning, and startle the select
men, who had decided that there should
be no ringing of bells.
"How could we get into the church,"
asked Tenny Cole, who was of prac-
teal turn of mind.
Break in, of course" rep led True,
eoolly. you can't expect to have all
that fun without-well, without hearing
something about it afterward. We could
break a windowin the porch; and when
we once got no d of the rope, wouldn't
we make people think the bell was be-
witchedP They'd blame Sandy Movie
for not being on the watch, too. 1t
would be u good joke on the old rascal.
He's got us in into enough trouble by
telling of us.
Irue's father was coming from the
back part of the store, so the boys low
cred their voices and walked quietly
out at the door; while beyond the coun-
ter, from the STOPPING posture in which
he had been measuring for himself a
gallon of molasses, arose Sandy Movie.
He looked after the boys, with all the
shrewd little wrinkles in his face draw
ing themselves up in hard knots,
"a good joke on the old rascal,
would it?" he muttered There never
any knowing how joke may turn out,
my fine fellows! You're fixing a
Fourth of July celebration for your
selves that'll be more than you bar
gained for if Pm not mistaken"
The boys went on, all unconscious
that Sandy Movie had been a listener
to the conversation that was certainly
not intended for his ears.
at would be good thing If we
could get into the church without
breaking a window" said Tenney
Cole. There's little Rose McVie now.
Let's ask her where her father keeps
tie key"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-07-02

1t takes seventy-fve thousand ele
plants year for the worlds plan
keys, billiard balls and knife handles.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-08-12

a
\ Cen A. w. Greedy oil Arctic tame has
contributed TO the Forum an inter.
osting and instructive paper on The
Effect 81 Alcohol in High Latitudes.''''
Gen. Greedy says: "A word from q
layman, not on the moral but on the
economic side Of the use Of alc ohol
will perhaps not seem inopportune.' q
British Arctic expectations are il.
viewed, and the Judgment Of Sir Alex.
ander Armstrong. medical director
general Of the royal navy, Is quoted
that cocoa or teais infinitely prefsr.
able 70 spirits. Gen GreelJ corrobor
ates ia his own experience the testi
mony OF the British authorities
and cites many instances Hs found
that O. rule alcohol vas bstteI
omitted il the issue Of rstion1, but
that used il moderate quantities va.
of benefit at times. It's best efect
seemed to be on the mental rather
than the physical conditlon Of the
men. giving them heart III time 81
mental depression. SsIss
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-08-12
Woman who Won't Abstain.

A female temperance advocate says
total abstinence means h wealth.
Perhaps il does. But after abstain
Ing from new bonnet for
six OF eight weeks the average
woman concludes that weaIth without
millinery vendure to adorn it is an
ugly, hump backed knock -kneed fraud
The time and money wasted on en-
.broidery and fancy work that Is never
seen BY the great eye Of the publiclex-
scept on wash day would pay the M
3tional debt and buy out every dis
tjllerY ID the land iii twelve months,
but all the same she persists in her
profigate course Of understanding.
Every woman, Dung or old. expects to
to be caught in railroad accident or
runaway sometime. and even in death
she wishes TO make her friends enyious
by the newspa per account Of her ward
robe. While this state of things ex-
lists the topper viii continue to en-
broider his stona ach with purpled tim
ted trimmings 1alati. Iardgraps her.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-08-12

The age has developed q great vari-.
ETY. OF contests, the latest beingin eat
ing and drinking. and these are becom-
ing frequent. Two champion clam
eaters had contest the other day in
Brooklyn, N. Y, which turned out to
be @ one sided affair. A man named
Kepler disposed Of 100 clans in just
four minutes, while his opponent kept
on until he had put over q thousand
into his stomach, and then he called
Tor a spring chicken-but he had to
be relieved afterwards by an emetic.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-08-12
A Steamer Almost Crushed by 1 Big Wave.

The officers Of the steamer Umbria, which
arrived in New York July Goth, report
that the vessel was washed by huge tidal
wave on the way over. It Was last We'd.
nesday morning, when the Umbria was
about ], 500 miles from Sandy Hook. A
mass OF angry water like huge wall was
rushing from the westward toward
the Umbria It seemed to tower high
above the vessel and looked formidable
enough to crush the huge ship. Officer
King quickly turned the signal lever to
slow the vessel. and the ,Umbria was
brought up to face the huge wave. On
it came, striking the II steamer over
the port bow. The huge volume Of
water toppled over on, the vessel,
actually burying her in the brine. The
ship seemed almost to stand still for a
moment, then she rose from the blow and
the water poured from her decks in huge
streams. Some sailors who had been
making their way forward were half drown
cd, and would have been carried overheard
had they not chung to the guard. The
water rushed below and nearly drowned
the sailors and fremen whose hunks were
on the haul-up deck. The escape Of the
vessel from more serious injury is consider
ed remarkably by her officers, who say the
wave was the largest they ever saw. Many
of the steerage passengers we're awakened
by the shock and some donned life belts.